Overstimulation… my favorite part of being autistic… NOT. If people understood what I do to calm myself down and didn’t judge me for it, maybe I could be fine with it. One of my favorite things to do when I’m overstimulated is growl like a bear, meow like a cat, neigh like a horse, or bark … More What people see when I’m over-stimulated

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Boys, especially white, upper middle class boys, get diagnosed with autism at very young ages and get all the support that their parents can find. I’m a girl with autism. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 19 years old. I went through my first semester of my first-year at Gettysburg, not knowing anything about myself … More Being a girl with autism